We request funding for a five year project to conduct two Internet interviews with a subset of the respondents to the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), and to set up a separate Internet panel of 1,000 non-HRS respondents, who will be interviewed via Internet twice a year for four years, plus a control group of 500 non-HRS respondents, who will be interviewed once a year by telephone for four years. The data collection and analysis will inform the URS about the potential of Internet interviewing and may serve as a testbed sample for the HRS. Our proposed study covers both methodological issues and substantive issues, foremost in economics, cognitive psychology and epidemiology. In view of the current distribution of Internet access among the population (with access dropping off among older age groups), it is anticipated that in the foreseeable future the HRS will use Internet interviewing alongside other modes. This motivates the mixed mode design of our proposed study. Specifically, we aim: 1. To provide data that will permit a comparative study of the population of Internet interviewees with the population of telephone interviewees with the goal of understanding selection bias; 2. To provide more systematic insight in the properties of Internet interviewing in comparison with other modes of collecting survey data, in particularly among middle aged and elderly respondents; 3. To initiate various experiments in questionnaire and question design, exploiting the potential of Internet interviewing. Special attention will be paid to the role of cognitive functioning and the suitability of the Internet as an interviewing environment; 4. To improve the measurement of various important objective variables such as consumption or wealth; 5. To develop new measurement methods for complex possibly subjective variables such as subjective probabilities, expectations, health histories, risk attitudes and time preference; 6. To make the data generated by these activities available to the research community; 7. To gear the outcomes of the research towards partial and gradual implementation of Internet interviewing in the HRS as of 2004.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01AG020717-04
Application #
6890263
Study Section
Social Sciences, Nursing, Epidemiology and Methods 4 (SNEM)
Program Officer
Phillips, John
Project Start
2002-06-15
Project End
2007-05-31
Budget Start
2005-06-01
Budget End
2006-05-31
Support Year
4
Fiscal Year
2005
Total Cost
$539,798
Indirect Cost
Name
Rand Corporation
Department
Type
DUNS #
006914071
City
Santa Monica
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
90401
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